Sweet Cream! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Coffee

There is also mocha ice cream, which contains chocolate as well as coffee flavors.

Coffee ice cream is normally light brown. It is made from real coffee, which is dark brown. (Coffee with no cream or sugar is often called "black", but it's still actually dark brown.) When the dark brown mixes with the white cream, then the natural result is a light brown.

As a coffee lover, I adore coffee ice cream. I would marry it if I could. My dad, however, hates everything related to coffee, even the ice cream. Oh, well! More for me!

Answer: Eggnog

It's not spicy like guacamole or jalapenos, but spicy like cinnamon or nutmeg.

Even though people drink eggnog, it is very thick and is technically a custard. Alton Brown makes an interesting comment regarding this. He basically says that eggnog, as a mixture of milk or cream and eggs, could be ice cream, except that it usually contains too much alcohol to freeze.

While eggnog traditionally contains alcohol, some of us do prefer our eggnog to be non-alcoholic. In addition, most eggnog flavored ice cream doesn't contain any alcohol.

Answer: Pumpkin

The "thankful" clue comes from the fact that pumpkins and pumpkin products, such as pie, are popular around Thanksgiving-time in America.

Pumpkin ice cream, similar to pumpkin pie, often includes spices like cinnamon or ginger.

Every autumn and winter, I personally look forward to the seasonal ice cream flavors, such as pumpkin, eggnog, peppermint, and others. The weather might be cold, but the ice cream is still delicious!

Answer: Peppermint

As a plant, peppermint is green. However, peppermint ice cream is often various shades of pink. One reason for this is that peppermint ice cream is frequently associated with candy canes. The candy cane is a Christmas or seasonal candy, flavored with peppermint, that is white with red stripes. When one mixes red and white together, the result is pink. (I'm sure that food coloring also helps to give the ice cream its pretty pinkness as well.)

Unlike peppermint ice cream, other mint ice cream - for example, mint and chip - is usually green. Also, one can buy mint and chip year-round, while peppermint ice cream is sold during autumn and winter, especially during winter.

Answer: Spumoni

Okay, so yes, I told you to forget chocolate ice cream in the introduction. I meant plain chocolate!

Spumoni originated in Italy. While chocolate is common, Wikipedia says that spumoni may sometimes be made with vanilla instead of chocolate. Interestingly, if made with vanilla (white), pistachio (green), and cherry (red) ice cream, the colors would then match the Italian flag's colors.

Neapolitan is layered with three flavors as well, but they are vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.

Answer: Cotton candy (American term)

Some countries, like the U.S. and Canada, call it "cotton candy". However, other countries use different terms for it. For example, Britain uses "candy floss".

Popular colors for cotton candy are pink and light blue. Likewise, the ice cream is often pink, blue, or a mixture of the two colors. The Ben and Jerry's variation, however, is white with sprinkles in it.

Answer: Hot cocoa

Rocky road ice cream includes chocolate, marshmallows, and nuts. Hot cocoa ice cream is kind of like that--except for the nuts.

Chocolate ice cream was created (in seventeenth-century Europe) before vanilla ice cream. I thought that vanilla was first, but apparently not.

When I first heard about "hot cocoa (or hot chocolate) ice cream", I thought it sounded silly. The title is basically an oxymoron. It tastes good, though.

Answer: Snickerdoodle

Snickerdoodle ice cream is based on snickerdoodle cookies, which are rolled in cinnamon.

Interestingly, the snickerdoodle is Connecticut's official state cookie.

There are different ice cream flavors made with cookies, such as chocolate chip cookie dough, cookies 'n cream, and even gingerbread ice cream.

Answer: Red velvet cake

Red velvet cake ice cream is based on red velvet cake, which is a version of chocolate cake but colored red. It is often frosted with cream cheese frosting.

Personally, I don't even like regular chocolate cake that much (I like everything else chocolate, but not really cake); however, there is something about red velvet cake that I just find delicious.

The ice cream seems to be either red, white, pink, or a mixture of such colors, depending on the creator.

If someone likes the cake, then he or she should try the ice cream!

Answer: Cookies 'n cream

Cookies 'n cream is a flavor of ice cream that contains chocolate cookies in it. Oreo is the most popular brand of chocolate sandwich cookies, but not all cookies 'n cream includes Oreos.

Cookies 'n cream became one of the best selling flavors of ice cream in 1983.

It is often made with vanilla ice cream, but sometimes it is made with other flavors, such as mint or even coffee ice cream.